"A Smith & Wesson beats a straight flush" [closed]

It means a gun will beat whatever you have in a poker game.

That is, if you have a pair of twos and the other person has a straight flush, it won't matter. You have a gun, and you can shoot the person.

Basically, the card game is irrelevant. If you have something powerful (gun, or a monopoly, or a dictatorship) then the rules that everyone is playing by do not apply to you.

The straight flush is the highest hand in poker: nothing beats it. The meaning intended here is, from the document itself: "In the marketplace, whichever party has the most power gets to make the rules."

Of course, that is also a prime example of argumentum ad baculum.